Boardgames and lesser pursuits
It has been two months (nearly) since my last Bridge game, one of the longest spells I’ve gone without in decades. It’s a unit game and (annoyingly) the top four pairs are all in our section …. in our direction. Thankfully we are in the top four … after a few rounds where mostly good […]
My initial thought was that FlipToons was an inoffensive filler that I had an unfortunately bad experience with. Having played a second time, I am revising my opinion. It offends. Rating — Avoid. FlipToons 2 sucked the joy out of my life when the first card I bought (the only one I could afford) I […]
These are “super” early, just observations I’ve had that could easily be wrong. We are in the early stages of discovery (at least I am) where it’s difficult to evaluate some cards because you need to see them interacting with other cards. In particular the Near/Far Frontier worlds have some big swings. Some Notes on […]
Mr. President is now out on Steam. I played the demo and I’m tempted to get it. Consider this an open thread for what computer/solo games you are interested in right now and/or if you’re getting it.
I tried the demo for this somewhat cozy game a few days ago, and decided to buy it. This is a deck builder where each card has 1 or more glyphs, and possibly a special ability. You are basically a god/explorer founding villages. When you pick a location it contains two regions (plains, swamps, buildings, […]
My Gathering comments on Azure — “Surprisingly good abstract filler that I’m still thinking about. Might buy, even though I dislike abstracts.” And now it is bought, and after playing another game I ordered the expansion. “Filler” is always a crowded category, but most of my fillers are card games (R4TG used to be a […]
Following up the earlier post, I’ve now played a twice (once just the Frontier game, once the full Counterstrike game). The Frontier Game (aka “only the regular cards, mostly”) The Counter Strike Game (Fight the Aliens!): A group I know in Boston has already banned a card.
Finally got my copy of R4TG:XC. Some brief thoughts (having only played the Frontier Game as a prototype last year). Full review later (hopefully). Open thread for XC thoughts.
During a Sumo stream, the streamer I watch mentioned he was playing “Manage your stable” game in his browser, so I checked it out. Uchi No Heya (“Inside the stable”) is … OK. I mean, I played for several hours. The game is still in Beta, with several issues (including seeing several “NaN”s where numbers […]
At a family vacation I took a variety of games … (the vacation was mostly adults, the next generation had an 18th birthday during the trip and two younger children). Catan was played a few times (mostly by my direct family). Flicken Chicken got some play. I took Giants Moving Tiny Furniture but it got […]